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If you fish in England, Scotland or Wales and always pay for your annual rod licence, you probably have wondered what happens to all of that money?
Especially with well over a million licences sold every year. In this exclusive show, angling TV channel OnlineFishing.tv gives you the answers.
The programme, narrated by Geoffrey Palmer, takes you to the EA fish laboratory at Brampton to lift the lid on some of the cutting edge scientific research that goes into keeping our fish stocks healthy and disease-free. We talk to the scientists themselves, find out about the major threats to our fisheries and waterways, and witness their commitment and passion when it comes to tackling them.
Next join us on a visit to Calverton, the source of millions of new fish every year, and find out how staff nurture and look after the fish stocks that are destined for our rivers, canals and stillwaters. We also head out and about on various rivers across the country with some of the Environment Agency teams.
Join an electro-fishing operation to find out how stocking strategies are monitored. Find out about flood refuge schemes designed to save fry from being lost every year, and follow a barbel stocking operation into a southern river system – a great example of how the Environment Agency and angling clubs are working together for the future of the sport.
The show then takes a change of direction to spend time with EA enforcement officers to find out about the challenges they face on a day to day basis – and why they need professional self-defence training and state-of-the-art equipment.
This section includes jaw-dropping undercover surveillance footage of salmon poachers in action. After watching this show, we promise that you will not only be informed about the Environment Agency’s commitment to improved fisheries and angling opportunities, but impressed as well.